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Sherry Pineau Brown, a lecturer and coordinator of teacher education, was quoted in an article published in the National Education Association's publication NEA Today. In the article, "‘My Empathy Felt Drained’: Educators Struggle With Compassion Fatigue," Brown said that too many educators work in unduly stressful conditions. "The heart of healthy communities are healthy schools, right? And we need healthy adults working within those schools to help our kids because we know they're not healthy,” said Brown, a former high school teacher and coauthor of a recent study on the "cost of caring."
That was the opening line about the Colby Museum's Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village exhibition from an art critic at the Boston Globe in a story about five art experiences in 2023 that were still "smouldering away" in the back of his mind.
The U.S. Department of Education recently spotlighted Colby's Center for Small Town Jewish Life and its successful work in building inclusivity. In the piece, the center's Executive Director and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, talked about the leadership fellowship program that involves students of all backgrounds, while Associate Director and Professor of Jewish Studies, David Freidenreich, noted that the center's work is about "ensuring that all can benefit."
Bibatshu Thapa Chhetri ’25 and Kai Goode ’24 spoke to NPR affiliate Maine Public about presenting at the just-completed COP28 global climate summit in Dubai, including how they believe their insights can impact global leaders and policymakers.
Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs and government major Gil Imboye '24 coauthored an article recently published in the peer-reviewed journal American Politics Research. The article, "The Nationalization of Individual Campaign Contributions in U.S. Senate Elections, 1984-2020," focuses on U.S. Senators' increasing reliance on campaign donations from outside their state. Analyzing more than 120 million donations between 1984 and 2020, they argue that the nationalization of campaign finance challenges the Senate's representative structure and hints at another dimension of inequality in American politics—those that have geographical-constrained
Lauren Cohen Fisher '13, a lecturer in the Jewish Studies Department, presented a lecture at Bowdoin College titled "The Politics of History: Israel/Palestine 1917–1948." Cohen Fisher's talk focused on "five moments between 1917 and 1948 she considers pivotal to existing Israeli and Palestinian political dynamics: the Balfour Declaration, the White Papers of 1922, the Partition Plan of 1947, Plan D, and the Declaration of the State of Israel," according to an article in the Bowdoin Orient. Cohen Fisher is also the director of Jewish Student Life at Colby.
Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs provided extensive commentary to the technology publication The Verge about the challenges rural America faces when it comes to electric vehicle infrastructure, including how there's a "perception out there that things like electrification are ... maybe not for rural America.”
Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman was the lead author on a paper recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The article, "Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science," states that, "Within ice core science, woman-led studies contain 20% more women co-authors than man-led studies, and exceed the estimated proportion of women within the community by nearly 10%." In the paper, the coauthors conclude that "collaboration with other women is a key factor in closing gender gaps in science."
The just-published book, The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, by Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs and Professor of Government Dan Shea, is quickly gaining media attention. Recent highlights include feature segments on the popular podcasts The Politics Guys and Alyssa Milano's Sorry Not Sorry, where Jacobs and Shea talked about the book's key takeaways.
The Colby Museum's Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village exhibit was featured in a review by the Portland Press Herald for its ingenious art representation in Maine.